I'll be honest that I had no clue that we were up to Mario Kart 8 now. I am also not the biggest Nintendo gamer as of the last few years so it is easy to see how that may have fallen through the crack of my attention. None the less Mario Kart 8 is coming out later this month (May) and there is a new trailer showing off all of the cool new stuff that is going to be in the game. Not to mention how the Mario Kart franchise has evolved from the days of yore to the modern day.
There does seem to be a whole slew of new characters in Mario Kart 8 that I don't remember seeing in earlier games. They may have been there before but as has been stated many times already, I haven't kept up with Mario Kart as a franchise. That said still I am going to keep this short and sweet and let you just hop on down to the new video to see everything for yourself.
I will say that Mario Kart 8 does have me interested in firing up the old Wii U here when it launches here soon. Party games and drinking games here we come!